Door-hanger



'(ModeL) H. E. RICHARDS. DOOR'HANGER.

No. 262,120. Patented Aug. 1, 1882.

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DOOR-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 262,120, dated August 1, 1882.

Application filed May 26, 1880. Renewed March 25, 1882.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY E. RICHARDS, of Ottawa, in the county of La Salle and State of Illinois, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Door-Hangers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a side view of my improved gate-hanger, taken inside. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same.

This invention has relation to improvements in door-hangers for the sliding doors of warehouses, depots, barns, and the like; and the nature of the invention consists in certain novel combinations of parts, as will he hereinafter shown and described.

In the annexed drawings, the letter A designates the side of a building, havingthe doorway B and door (3, sliding endwise between the floor and a horizontal beam, D, arranged above the doorway, as shown. The lower edge of the door 0 is guided, when the said door is opened, between the strips a a. The upper edge of the beam D is provided with a central longitudinal rib, b, and an outside metallic plate, 0, extending its whole length and rigidly secured thereto.

G G indicate metallic wheels having deep peripheral grooves, mounted on the track-beam l), with their flanges embracing the rib b and the perimeters thereof bearing on the shoulders at each side of said rib. Resting on these wheels is the upper track-rail, H, provided on its under side with a depending rib, c, fitting between the flanges of the wheels G G. The door is suspended from the upper track-rail, H, by means of the metallic plates J. The wheel G has its bearings in a metallic box, K, having free endwise sliding motion on the lower track-rail, D, and having its lower edges, l, extending down past the bearing-shoulders t of said rail in recesses or grooves t", formed for (MOdeL) the purpose. This wheel is prevented from running from under the upper track-rail H by means of the downwardly-extending hookform stops 8, that pass readily between the flanges of said wheel and engage the central hub thereof; or I may use a long flat staple, L, secured at its ends to the said track rail, with its horizontal portion passing between the flanges of the wheel, as shown in Fig. 1, applied to wheel G, the object being in either case to prevent the wheels G G from running from under the upper trackrail. The form of the stop is immaterial.

During the opening and closing of'the door the box K of the wheel G acts as a rudder, and by the engagement ofits flanges or lower edges in the recess'of the track-rail D steers the hanger in right lines, preventing the twistingof the top rail and the wheel G from jumping the track.

It will be observed that the wheels G G have double bearings, the one being on the track-rail D and the other on the upper trackrail, H. Consequently the sliding of the door is both rapid and of easy accomplishment.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

'lhecombination,with the lower track-rail,D, having the raised rib b and side recesses, l, the wheels G G, resting on said rail, the gate 07 and the top track-rail, H, having rib c extending down between the flanges of the wheels and connected to the gate by the depending plates J, of the stops upon the under side of the upper track-rail engaging the hub of the wheels between its flanges, and the boxK upon the journals of one of the wheels, having lower edges, Z, extending down into the recesses i, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY E UGENE RICHARDS.

Witnesses:

OYRUs POAGE, J ULIUs FRANKLIN RICHARDS. 

